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Download or read book The Back Door Introduction to the Bible written by John Kaltner and published by Anselm Academic. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible's influence on Western culture is profound: its stories are referenced in commerce, the arts, and beyond. Know the stories, and you understand the allusion in a commercial, a painting, or a movie. Living in the Western world, once cannot be culturally literate without knowing something about the Bible. A product of a very different world, the Bible can be hard to read and difficult to understand. In explaining the customs and social mores of the time, the authors take the reader to a level of understanding where the real significance of a story is more clearly revealed.--